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The Tomb of Dante (Italian: Sepolcro di Dante) is an Italian neoclassical national monument built over the tomb of the poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) in 1781. [1] It is sited next to the Basilica of San Francesco in central Ravenna. [2] The monument is surrounded by a "zona dantesca", in which visitors have to remain silent and respectful.
The statue was erected in 1865 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Dante's birth. The pedestal was designed by Luigi del Sarto. The creation of a statue of a famous Florentine by a sculptor from Ravenna caused some rumblings. Florence and Ravenna had for years disputed who was to hold the remains of Dante: his native city or the city of his ...
Dante is also sometimes credited with writing Il Fiore ("The Flower"), a series of sonnets summarizing Le Roman de la Rose, and Detto d'Amore ("Tale of Love"), a short narrative poem also based on Le Roman de la Rose. These would be the earliest, and most novice, of his known works. [108] Le Rime is a posthumous collection of miscellaneous poems.
Lungotevere Dante is the stretch of lungotevere linking Viale Guglielmo Marconi with Ponte Marconi, in Rome, in the Ostiense district. [ 1 ] Dedicated to the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri , it is located near some locations of the campus of the university Roma Tre and the Institute for Cinema and Television.
Madonna di San Biagio: 12 October 1681: San Biagio, Montepulciano: Pope Innocent XI: Madonna di Provenzano: 1 November 1681: Santa Maria in Provenzano, Siena: Pope Innocent XI: Madonna delle Grazie [50] 2 May 1682 Velletri Cathedral: Pope Innocent XI Madonna di San Giovanni: 10 May 1682: Ripatransone Cathedral: Pope Innocent XI: Madonna del ...
Dante is depicted (bottom, centre) in Andrea di Bonaiuto's 1365 fresco Church Militant and Triumphant in the Santa Maria Novella church, Florence. In 1373, a little more than half a century after Dante's death, the Florentine authorities softened their attitude to him and decided to establish a department for the study of the Divine Comedy.
The Danteum is an unbuilt monument proposed by a scholar of Dante, approved by the Benito Mussolini's Fascist government, designed by the modernist architect Giuseppe Terragni. However, in the end about all that remains now are some sketches on paper, scraps of an architectural model of the project and pieces of a project report ( Relazione ...
Luigi, a member of the House of Este, [2] was born in Ferrara.A man of the world [3] whose personal emblem was Prometheus bearing fire in the stalk of fennel, [4] he was made a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Pius IV's consistory of 26 February 1561 [5] and served as Cardinal Protector of the kingdom of France, which made him one of the most powerful and influential members of the ...